November is National Adoption Month, and I'm thrilled to have Naomi Quick as my guest poster today! She is a homeschooling mom of six, and the author of Don't Waste Your Wait: Embracing the Journey of Bringing Your Child Home. You won't want to miss her insights into the connection between homeschooling and adoption. Naomi is also generously giving away a copy of her book to one person! Enter to win your copy at the end of this post.
We decided to homeschool when we were pregnant with our first child. As a homeschool graduate at 17, I could appreciate the benefits of home education. Benefits such as children being able to learn at their own pace, using teaching methods tailored to a child’s strengths, and incorporating the foundational ... Read More...

Several years ago, we lived across the street from a family that went all out decorating for Halloween. In addition to fake witches, ghosts, and other spooky things, they also had a pair of giant yellow eyes plastered on their second floor windows.
It was downright creepy. And it was unavoidable.
Every time I looked across the street or left the house those huge, evil glowing eyes stared back at me. They stared back at my children, who were still a little too young to separate fantasy from reality.
As Christian parents, we are squarely confronted with the question of what to do with October 31st.
Do we let our kids go trick-or-treating?
Do we participate in any of the seemingly benign Halloween festivities around us?
Do we ... Read More...

Before I started homeschooling, I had all sorts of doubts about my ability to educate my own children. I thought I would single-handedly be responsible for messing up my kids' future since they would be unprepared for real life.
Even though I had managed to parent two pretty decent small human beings, using only common sense and a whole lot of prayer, I still felt I was unqualified to be their teacher.
There are still plenty of days where I feel I'm not cut out for this. I've described myself as an unlikely homeschooler, since it wasn't my original plan to educate my children at home.
But the truth is, there really is no such thing as an "unlikely homeschooler". Every one of us has already been given everything we need to teach our ... Read More...

Last Thursday, we logged two years of homeschooling in the books. That means we are officially on summer break! But that doesn't mean we'll abandon all learning for the next two months.
The kids will be doing a couple of pages in activity books right after breakfast to practice the skills they've learned in First Grade and Pre-K. They'll also be reading for at least 20 minutes a day for our library's summer reading program. The science experiments we didn't get to during the year will be done once a week until they're completed also.
As promised, here is a look back at some of the homeschool highlights from our last quarter. We had so much fun exploring space, traveling back in time to Ancient Rome, seeing how donuts are made, and ... Read More...

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You would think that having a spouse in full-time ministry would make you more mindful of and motivated to come up with ideas to celebrate holidays like Easter and Christmas. However, I find that I need to be more intentional about making these hallmarks of our faith meaningful for my kids because it is easy to see them as "just another work day".
Since my husband is the Media Director of our church, he has been working practically non-stop on their Easter production, which kicked off today with Palm Sunday.
Even as regular church goers we ... Read More...

Hi! I'm Marisa, a homeschooling mother of two kids, Jesus follower, coffee lover, and Jersey girl transplanted to Oklahoma. I write to encourage women to find purpose and joy in their God-given calling as mothers, and help them raise children with a biblical worldview. Thanks for joining me today! I hope you will grab a cup of coffee, pull up a chair, and stay awhile. Read More…